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I’m back from Italy with another Android game for you all, but this one’s a little different to the previous ones that I have reviewed. Eat Dirt, developed by Fail Code Games, is a side scrolling, hill climber, racing game, with a variation of different objectives and customisation options. The player operates their own vehicle, which can be upgraded and modified throughout playing the game, and pilots it over a vast array of mini games and gravity defying race courses. There are pedals on the screen to use, just like in a real vehicle (minus the touchscreen), where one must master the art of sensitive driving to conquer the leaderboards.
This game is either crazy difficult or I’m just really bad at Android games. I found that the default, unaltered vehicle you are provided with is pretty much useless, so I decided to begin by spending my starting points on a big hulk of a 4-by-4. Packing twice as much of a punch, I took to the roads (Or rather, the hills) with this metallic bad-boy and made another attempt at leaderboard domination. To my dismay I still didn’t get very far. The controls are EXTREMELY sensitive, and by sensitive I mean take-your-girlfriends-new-£500-shoes-and-put-them-to-the-torch-sensitive (no offence intended, I know not ALL women are obsessively addicted to shoes like my other half). It takes a great amount of control to operate your car and avoid flipping over, instantly bursting into an impressive bonfire. Not that this is a downside, all I’m saying is be prepared for the fury of hitting a randomly generated hill spike and being mercilessly upturned.
Graphically, Eat Dirt leaves a little to be desired. It’s fine for what it is and doesn’t really affect the gameplay at all, it’s just a little clunky and polygon-y. Aside from this however, if you are the kind of gamer that looks for time consuming games that you can invest a large amount of energy into, this would be a really ideal game to do so with due to the huge amount of upgrade options and game modes. One of the modes features a small truck type vehicle where you must retain the loose box in the back of your trunk whilst driving over mountains and inclines that destroy the laws of physics as we know them. A few of the modes are slightly strange and don’t really seem to work too well, the ‘wheelie’ mini game as an example, but at least we can see that the developer is being inventive and listening to the fans!
If you fancy giving the game a go you can download it for your Android device via Google Play HERE
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George
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